Monday, February 8, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
New pharmacy program to upgrade current standards
By Jennifer Roush Kansan staff writer
A new academic program at the University of Kansas is helping pharmacists improve their skills without losing valuable time on the job.
KU' s Nontraditional Pharm.D. program offers practicing pharmacists the opportunity to upgrade their skills while remaining a part of the work force. Pharm.D. is the term for a Doctor of pharmacy degree.
The American Council on Pharmaceutical Education will not offer a bachelor's of science degree after 2002, Ron Ragan, the program's director, said.
Ragan said the new program would allow adult students to earn the Pharm.D. part-time.
The program also would be useful in helping pharmacists become more skilled in their profession.
"We're getting more into educating patients about their medications, instead of just counting and sorting pills," Ragan said. "The professional pharmacy is moving more toward an information industry."
The school of pharmacy's Nontraditional Pharm.D. program will begin classes Feb. 23.
The academic portion of the program will be conducted mostly on the Internet. In addition to online and videotape classes, there also will be in-classroom sessions.
Course content for the program will be on a computer at the Edwards Campus, and interested students must enroll there.
Jeremy Matchett, assistant dean of school pharmacy, said the only extra cost to students using this program would be the Regents Center fee.
"We're really glad that we were able to get this program going," Ragan said. "We like to be able to give something back to the community by helping to improve pharmacists' skills."
Lippincott renovation causes delays opens lab space for students, faculty
By Lori O'Toole Special to the Kansan
The basement of Lippincott Hall soon will be a new place for researchers at the University to experiment.
Facilities and Operations, in connection with the Crumbling Classrooms project, is converting space in the building's basement into a laboratory this spring. The new lab will make room in another building for the construction of an enclosed external stairway and an outside exit.
Mike Richardson, facilities operations director, said the laboratory project should be completed by the end of February.
Michael Crawford, professor of anthropology, will be moving to Lippincott from his lab in Twente Hall that he has had since 1974.
"I was actually there before the School of Social Welfare," he said.
Crawford said that he does not mind the move and that the wait for the new lab was worth it, despite the inconveniences.
"The laboratory in Lippincott will be a big improvement and we'll be able to do more advanced DNA research." Crawford said.
The final phase of Lippincott's remodeling, the conversion of basement space into offices began last December and was completed during winter break.
The total Lippincott project, including the lab and new offices, will cost more than $49,000 and is financed by the Office of the Provost.
"The Provost's office has been very interested in the lab project so the Crumbling Classrooms project can begin." Richardson said.
Richardson said shipment delays on equipment, such as fume hoods, have slowed down the lab project construction.
Although Crawford has been able to use his new offices in Lippincott while he waits for the lab to be completed, the construction also has slowed his activities.
"I don't like to lose a month's work, but if the cost of getting better facilities means wasting one's time, that's fine," he said.
Crawford also works with graduate students conducting dissertation research. He said those students were inconvenienced the most.
Joe McComb, a Lawrence graduate student who is working on a DNA fingerprint analysis dissertation, also said that working under a deadline had added pressure to the situation.
"It's been a bit of a hassle mainly because we've had to stop research several times," said McComb. "It's hard to do science when you keep starting and stopping."
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